Bill DeSimone
Bill DeSimone is an ACE-certified health coach, Senior Fitness Specialist, and owner of Optimal Exercise in Cranbury, New Jersey, and has certifications in Functional Anatomy, Functional Fitness, and Orthopaedic Exercise. He started training people in 1983 at the Sports Training Institute in New York City.
He developed the Joint-Friendly Fitness Project, which draws on anatomy and biomechanics, providing clients with all the benefits of regular exercise while reducing the risk of injuries. He is the author of Congruent Exercise and Moment Arm Exercise.
In this episode, Bill DeSimone talks about his new book Joint-Friendly Fitness, which covers updates on exercises, safety precautions around exercises involving the postural muscles, weight recommendations on different exercises, Joint-Friendly Fitness full body routines, and much more.
Are you a personal trainer? Or are you just looking to refine your own workout regimen and maximize your gains in the safest and smartest ways possible? Make sure you check out Bill’s Book, Joint-Friendly Fitness.
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Show Notes
- 1:11 – What is Joint-Friendly Fitness about?
- 11:28 – Challenging the HIT paradigm
- 18:45 – Different exercises omitted in the book
- 25:20 – Viewpoint around spine extension (w/ weights) over BOSU Dome
- 37:10 – Safety precautions for lumbar extension exercise
- 51:16 – Recommended weights on calf knee flexion
- 55:51 – Joint-Friendly full body routine
- 1:01:57 – Bill DeSimone’s workout routine
- 1:14:34 – The best Joint-Friendly Fitness photo
- 1:24:05 – Tips on productivity and email list building
Selected Links from the Episode
- Joint-Friendly Fitness: Your Guide to the Optimal Exercise Program by Bill DeSimone
- Optimal Exercise
- Congruent Exercise: How To Make Weight Training Easier On Your Joints by Bill DeSimone
- Moment Arm Exercise by Bill DeSimone
- Nautilus Inc.
- Resistance Exercise Conference (REC)
- Functional Training + HIT course
- BOSU Dome
- MedX Machines
- Super Slow: The Ultimate Exercise Protocol
431 – Bill DeSimone’s 40-Year Journey in Personal Training: Lessons and Legacies
406 – Transforming Back Health: Tim Dettmann and Kieser Australia’s Pioneering Approach to High Intensity Training for Lower Back Pain (Live Q&A from REC 2023)
393 – Join me at the Resistance Exercise Conference 2023
I am at about the 40 minute marker on this, going finish later. Just had to say brilliant per usual for Bill, and Lawrence for asking questions. Looking forward to hearing the rest ????????
Thank you!
Really enjoyed this. Haven’t been listening to you lately but this episode was really relevant to me ????????
Thank you Andrew.
Listened to the rest of the podcast. So much applicable, technical, translated into practical to put to use information. I Always get something out Bill’s stuff and Lawrence great again at
asking questions.
More reminders here, to me, to keep safety and longevity at the forefront.I really liked the various parts about not always having to add weight, progressing with more weight. Bill talking about his reasoning for only keeping records for a year and reference to the Superslow Technical Manual, about “resetting” to be true with good form and thus sort of “starting over” with weight progression.
The wording Bill uses, starting with the joints and the exercises, modifications, etc. branching out from the joints functions/ the biomechanics, being the arbiter.
Great, great stuff ????????
Thank you Donnie. I’m glad you enjoyed the podcast.
Almost finished listening to this again. Not sure why my previous comment had all the questions marks at the end, was not intended. Again, phenomenal content/discussion. So much to apply if your goal is to train for the rest of your life and reap the many positive benefits. The points about training the deep, postural muscles spoke to me indeed. The talk about “progression”, Bill’ s points and also his references to Ken’s points regarding. So much technical translated to accessable. Hyper motivating for me